The Collège de France inaugurates a partnership with the Musée d'Orsay, offering its professors an unprecedented dive into its collections. Drawing on their respective disciplines, the professors of the Collège de France provide an erudite and offbeat reading of a work chosen from the collections, and a new perspective on the century, in the form of a dialogue with the curators of the Musée d'Orsay XIXth century, in the form of a dialogue with Musée d'Orsay curators.
The meetings will take place in the Musée d'Orsay auditorium on the following dates :
- Wednesday 16 October 2024 at 12 h : Pr William Marx and Stéphane Guégan, around two sculptures representing Degas and Mallarmé by Paul Valéry.
- Wednesday 27 november 2024 at 12 : Pr Pierre-Michel Menger and Jean-Rémi Touzet, on Seurat's L'Étude pour un dimanche à la Grande Jatte .
- Wednesday, December 18 2024 at 12 h : Pr Thomas Römer and Laure Chabanne, on the painting Le Paradis perdu by Alexandre Cabanel.
Wednesday, January 15 2025 at 12 h : Pr Antoine Compagnon and Isolde Pludermacher, around the pastel Ludovic Halévy et Albert Boulanger Cavé dans les coulisses de l'Opéra by Edgar Degas.
Prior booking required on the Musée d'Orsay website.
